Erling Haaland

[Deleted member 87819]

Apart from Donnarumma, Hakimi, Nuno Mendes and a ton of some of the biggest talents in Europe at u19 age group etc. Yeah, never signed any young stars.

Raiola took Donnarumma there because there was millions on the table for both of them. How is Donnarumma not at the top of his respective food chain? just won best player at Euro 2020 and the best young keeper in the world with a potential career of 15+ years.

Hakimi is never going to be a contender for the Ballon D’Or. Mbappe realized he needed to leave to take his career to the next step. Nuno Mendes’ agent wanted him to leave Sporting asap. He wanted him to come to us. PSG was the possibility left on the table. But he too won’t be the star of the decade. I am talking about that level. I think with goalkeepers it’s a different situation because only so much can happen for them and places to fit. It’s not the same for a young striker destined for the top. Neymar would never have gone to PSG instead of Barcelona first for instance.

Maybe I will be wrong and he will end up there, in which case I will apologize. But at this point it looks extremely unlikely with everything I understand. They are likely to replace Mbappe with a Richarlison, for instance

 

[GX Blue]

Haaland has always had an unreal goal scoring record as a kid.
Why did we not bring him in when he was 15, 16, 17?
Why did Salzburg get him over us?

We buy kids from all over the world.
We have databases made with stats for nearly everyone in world football.

This is not just hindsight.
If you have a kid whose Dad played for us, goes watching some of our games with his Dad, great scoring record, you’d think someone would have picked up on that and thought let’s get him in.

Anyone who is clearly decent with City roots/connections should surely be given priority.
And I don’t mean any City fan gets a trial ha, just that we want kids with talent who have ‘City blood’ like Phil.

Id just like to know if we were aware of him and if not why?

 

[Deleted member 87819]

why would Dortmund hold on to him when they know he's going for half the price in the summer. Surely it makes sense for them to sell in January for more money.

It makes no difference because the clause has already kicked in

 

[decmancity]

why would Dortmund hold on to him when they know he's going for half the price in the summer. Surely it makes sense for them to sell in January for more money.

Only way Haaland agrees to leaving in Jan is if Dortmund give him the difference in fees. The whole point of the low release clause was so clubs would top him up personally with a huge signing on fee.

X having to pay 125m to Dortmund for Haaland means less to give him and his dad (and Raiola) as well.

X having to pay 65m to Dortmund for Haaland means they have 60m to split across the others and make them happy.

So unless Dortmund sell for 125m but give Haaland 60m anyway it just allows them 65m to buy someone in Jan which is very unlikely imo.

 

[Deleted member 87819]

Haaland has always had an unreal goal scoring record as a kid.
Why did we not bring him in when he was 15, 16, 17?
Why did Salzburg get him over us?

We buy kids from all over the world.
We have databases made with stats for nearly everyone in world football.

This is not just hindsight.
If you have a kid whose Dad played for us, goes watching some of our games with his Dad, great scoring record, you’d think someone would have picked up on that and thought let’s get him in.

Anyone who is clearly decent with City roots/connections should surely be given priority.
And I don’t mean any City fan gets a trial ha, just that we want kids with talent who have ‘City blood’ like Phil.

Id just like to know if we were aware of him and if not why?

You could ask the same for another Dortmund kid like Reyna. Why did we let him go? It happens

 

[decmancity]

Haaland has always had an unreal goal scoring record as a kid.
Why did we not bring him in when he was 15, 16, 17?
Why did Salzburg get him over us?

We buy kids from all over the world.
We have databases made with stats for nearly everyone in world football.

This is not just hindsight.
If you have a kid whose Dad played for us, goes watching some of our games with his Dad, great scoring record, you’d think someone would have picked up on that and thought let’s get him in.

Anyone who is clearly decent with City roots/connections should surely be given priority.
And I don’t mean any City fan gets a trial ha, just that we want kids with talent who have ‘City blood’ like Phil.

Id just like to know if we were aware of him and if not why?

Why did no one in world football bring him in?

Its not that simple.

Delap is tearing apart the u23 league and still can't get any game time. Haaland was given first team football at 18.

 

[blueparrot]

Haaland has always had an unreal goal scoring record as a kid.
Why did we not bring him in when he was 15, 16, 17?
Why did Salzburg get him over us?

We buy kids from all over the world.
We have databases made with stats for nearly everyone in world football.

This is not just hindsight.
If you have a kid whose Dad played for us, goes watching some of our games with his Dad, great scoring record, you’d think someone would have picked up on that and thought let’s get him in.

Anyone who is clearly decent with City roots/connections should surely be given priority.
And I don’t mean any City fan gets a trial ha, just that we want kids with talent who have ‘City blood’ like Phil.

Id just like to know if we were aware of him and if not why?

Probably because his dad thought Norway-Austria -Germany- ? was a better development path than trying to break into a team that was expected to win the league and already had Aguero. I say his dad was right.

 

[BerkshireBlue]

It makes no difference because the clause has already kicked in

really? surprised they've allowed that to happen then

 

[Coatigan]

Last summer was Kane or nothing and always was and we almost certainly made offer /s. The rumours of offers for anyone else were just that. We will have a pretty good idea now, or by January at the latest whether we think Haaland is an option, if not we will be looking at alternatives. History tells us how we operate we will have a budget for Haaland and a cut off that no bidding war will shift us from.

How do you decide which rumours have something to them, and which don't?

We were constantly and repeatedly rumoured to be after nuno mendes, with fugures quoted and all. Nothing moved on it. It gets widely concluded we were in for kane or nothing, but plenty suggests others were looked at too, including vlahovic. And ronaldo for a brief moment too.

I can't possibly believe it was all kane and nobody else in the frame. Partly because of other rumours, but also because how little real effort was made and how much of the window was left when the club walked away. Mostly though, it doesnt make sense, and is not how the club have operated before. People argue we don't get involved in bidding wars or pay big fees (we do both, have done and will do), but happily accept we would gonfor just one single player, when senior members have previously openly claimed every transfer has multiple options.

On that note, I don't believe his release clause kicks in january. Not because the source is mince, and one speculative claim only, which is true, but because it doesnt make sense. Dortmund would not have played hardball the way they did and clubs would have teated them more if it was as soon as january rather than next summer. Also makes no footballing sense to have agree a release clause midway through a season.

 

[Deleted member 87819]

really? surprised they've allowed that to happen then

He also joined them in January and they agreed for two years before the clause